Christopher Webb Smith. Simon’s Town, c1838. Water Colour. View from the high ground
above Admiralty House of the harbour and shipping in Simon’s Bay (From the Collection
of the Library of Parliament)

The Historic Mile Walk covers the buildings along St George's street (the main road)
from the Railway Station to the East Dockyard Gates, a distance of about one mile.This
walk captures the history of Simon’s Town from 1741 when the Dutch East India Company
decided that Simon’s Bay would be their winter anchorage, through the period 1813
to 1957 when Simon’s Town was the home of the Royal Navy in the South Atlantic, and
from 1957 to the present day, during which the town has been the home of The South
African Navy. As can be seen from the photographs opposite, little has changed in
the last 100 years